Troy Loney wrote:So if that Alabama running back reminded you of Bettis and the thought ran through your head that steelers should draft him....does that make you a yinzer?

this makes troy loney sound like a self loathing yinzer

Troy Loney might deny being a yinzer, but he's not one of these people that attribute every stupid sports opinion to being "typical yinzer". This seems to be the dominant attitude of the local sports talk media. Troy Loney doesn't disagree that the callers are stupid, and probably yinzers, but Troy Loney despises how the hosts just attack. It's like their completely ignorant of the fact that their show appeals most strongly to the lowest common denominator.

Great column on this asinine "controversy". If any feminist or otherwise was actually offended at the labeling of the quarterback's girlfriend as "beautiful", STFU. Here's one of the most vocally angry feminists:

“It’s extraordinarily inappropriate to focus on an individual’s looks. In this instance, the appearance of the quarterback’s girlfriend had no bearing on the outcome of the game. It’s a major personal violation, and it’s so retrograde that it’s embarrassing."

But there is no SSA record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper.

Nor is there any report of a severe auto accident involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up nothing. The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed.

The photographs identified as Kekua—in online tributes and on TV news reports—are pictures from the social-media accounts of a 22-year-old California woman who is not named Lennay Kekua. She is not a Stanford graduate; she has not been in a severe car accident; and she does not have leukemia. And she has never met Manti Te'o.